A Comparative Study of Crime Fiction

If you're interested in reading about the evolution of crime fiction, you'll want to visit the website of the International Crime Fiction Research Group. The group is based in Queen's University, Belfast, and includes representatives from literary, film history, and cultural history studies. As stated on its website, "[i]ts principal aim is to organise a series of initiatives themed around issues relating to the international genres of crime fiction, in order to establish long-term collaborations with other UK and European scholars and Libraries."

The website has some beautiful reproductions of pulp fiction covers, as well as articles on such well-known crime fiction writers as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Georges Simenon, to name only a few.

To check out the website, please go to at http://internationalcrimefiction.org/....